Charlie586

Just caught up with this thread the past few days. Just really wanted to add to what everyone else has said and hope you find a solution to the problem. I don't know much about selling houses, but as others have said, Rightmove is the most popular site, though Purple Bricks seem to advertise more on television. The commutable aspect is certainly worth exploring i.e. making sure the house shows up on searches for commuter etc. p.s. I particularly liked the manure wagon a few pages back.

I'd be interested in seeing a track plan too (and more pictures). The size I have to play with is just under your 3ft x 2ft and I hadn't thought about using height to compensate for lack of space until seeing this.

Thanks I never thought of that. Funny because I always take and hoard stirrers and other freeies, but forgot all about them! I wish I'd changed it, but am now used to it. Zoom in and out on mouse sounds handy, especially as I'm working on a laptop so it's only a small workspace anyway and I have to constantly move around when zooming. I've managed to scale the sides down to 4mm in FUD. The base needed thickening along with the width (0.6mm wide excluding the base was the lowest I could go to keep the ridges and internal width) and some of the internal detail needed fiddling with. I suppose the next step is to try 2mm, but if that gets through I'll be more than surprised. https://www.shapeways.com/product/L3UJ84FVJ/gwr-bench-ends-4mm-oo-scale-sprue-of-6

I've just looked and there are loads, I wish I'd done a search before I started. I was doing a 20hp open cab curved frame, yours looks much better than my attempt! It's been good practice building it though. I learnt a lot from building the curved frames. I agree about needing time to learn. Without my broken toe I wouldn't have had enough time to even begin learning and keep track of everything else.

Hello JCL. I keep meaning to post on your thread but I'm about halfway through and don't want to jump to the end and lose my place. I owe you a big thank you as I wouldn't have started this without your thread. I'll look out for the Udemy website. At the moment I'm still working vertex by vertex and don't use anywhere near half the tools and modifiers. I'm wondering which buttons will wear out first on my keyboard, the E or CTRL and Z I keep meaning to do just the ends for 7mm, to get the price down a bit. Also some of the benches I've seen in photos used 3 ends. I haven't tried rescaling to OO yet, but I think the details would get lost. It's worth a try though.

Hello One32. I think it was the combination of all the tutorials rather than one in particular. One of the hardest parts is finding your way around blender (getting used to using the right mouse button and the mouse wheel takes a while to get used to as intuitively you try to left click). The blender tutorial which is 2000 pages long is actually very good in helping with that side, but you don't get to actually build much for the first few hundred pages which leaves you frustrated. I started by making a milk churn. Sometimes It's only when you try to upload to shapeways that you realise what you're doing wrong, so I'd definitely recommend trying something small and uploading before (like me) you get halfway through a Sentinel steam wagon and realise everything's far too thin. I've rescaled it to 10mm to the foot, so it's just under 3 cm tall in real world scale. This is 2 bench ends on a sprue as this would be the cheapest way of making it in FUD. I will upload the full bench later but I imagine it will be quite a lot more. https://www.shapeways.com/product/72F8TXCAU/gwr-bench-ends-10mm-scale

Thanks MGR Hooper!. It passed the checks and arrived today... This is obviously the dolls house 1/12 scale and the photo was only taken on my phone. I'll be taking some better pictures later, not least to put on the Shapeways site. I've got some wooden plant labels that I think will work as planks, if not then I'll have to buy some ice lollies.

I've been wanting to learn CAD for a while but never really had the spare time. Over the past few months I've been reading the various tutorials, and JCL's brilliant thread, but it wasn't until I broke my toes and had an enforced two weeks of sitting down that I finally got the hang of blender (or at least I think I've finally got it) I've made loads of mistakes. Firstly I was modelling things in real life scale then attempting to scale down so the thinnest parts were well under the acceptable standards. Seems to be better to build things in the final scale in mm and always keep the minimum thickness in the back of your head. I also had more internal faces than Worzel Gummidge, which proved to be a problem with a few things I was working on. Anyway, the bench. I've no idea how to do screenshots in blender and the F12 render I've not got the hang of (as the camera is too far away?), so here's a normal screenshot. At first I couldn't get it through shapeways in 4mm, and due to various problems while building it, I deleted a large part and started again but in 1/12 scale (so at least it could get some use for a dollshouse). It only took a bit of fiddling afterwards for shapeways to accept it in WSF. The price is working out a bit high, but with the planks removed it's much better. I did make a sprue of 2 bench ends, thinking that would be cheaper than buying 2 individual ends, but it worked out a lot more than double the price of one. The order's placed, plus a few other bits and bobs I was working on. I haven't actually seen anything 3d printed yet and I've read enough about the quality to not be expecting it to look exactly like the renders. Also, after placing the order I had a thought about scaling it down to 7mm. It only needed an extra 0.1mm of thickness to get it through on FUD, which surprised me. I've still got another week or two of light duties, so the next things I'm 3d building are a Rover class Broad Gauge bodyshell, a few wagon sides and maybe an underframe for 7mm narrow gauge. I'm already halfway through a simplex (I think everyone does a simplex!), a Kitson Tram and a couple of GWR carriage sides.

It's a really good idea. Would a foldable board (or two boards hinged) fit in, or would you lose too much space for stock and buildings? I've got a spare tool box in the shed with a broken tray and you've got me thinking about something.

I've got boxes full of 4mm stuff I've picked up over the years, and don't look forward to the cost of going 7mm but I think it'll lead to unnecessary frustration if I don't. I'll probably just end up with a few locos and a handful of stock, for me most of the fun is in the making, plus I've never actually finished any of the 4mm ones I've tried as real life and other hobbies keep getting in the way. I've got no room at all at the moment for anything significant but am thinking of a small double-boxfile type layout, probably O16.5 or oo9 but it could end up being anything. Have you seen this on ebay? I half thought of bidding, but talked myself round in the end! http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BUILT-PAINTED-OO-GAUGE-1-76-GWR-LEO-CLASS-SADDLE-TANK-2-4-0-BROAD-GAUGE-LOCO-/381590378273?hash=item58d88f1721:g:g5oAAOSwAvJXAVk~

The layout I've got planned is as much of Wantage Road as I can fit - there's a short period of mixed gauge and the Wantage Tramway at the same time. I brought some 4mm bits (and a corsair kit) when I was a member but I think it'll end up 7mm due to eyesight. I was thinking of rechargeable battery power to at least save on the wiring (and hoping they improve in the next ten years). You're right about rejoining though. I could have already missed something on the area I'm planning to do.

This looks excellent. I'm a broad gauge fan myself (though my BGS membership lapsed a few years ago) and am still planning my eventual retirement BG loft layout (I'm hoping someone invents 3d printed BG points in the next ten years!)